Life
A lion’s roar can travel eight kilometres across open savanna, but it is not only a war cry
By Daniel Moran · Aug 20, 2026
Biology
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Life
For decades, the standard claim was that bacteria in your body outnumbered your own cells ten to one
Aug 20, 2026
Life
Somewhere between 18 and 35 percent of people sneeze when they step into bright sunlight, but nobody has established how light hitting the…
Aug 19, 2026
Life
In 1968, a researcher built a mouse paradise
By Daniel Moran · Aug 19, 2026
Life
Chimpanzees in West Africa have been seen carrying their dead for weeks, grooming the body, chasing away flies, and sitting close to the…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 19, 2026
Biology
Researchers found that people who spoke two or more languages developed dementia symptoms about 4.5 years later than those who spoke only…
By Daniel Moran · Aug 18, 2026
Life
Dolphins off Western Australia carry sea sponges on their beaks while foraging along the ocean floor
By Daniel Moran · Aug 17, 2026
Life
A jellyfish smaller than a pinky fingernail has spread to every ocean on Earth, almost certainly by hitchhiking inside ship ballast water…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 17, 2026
Life
A kangaroo joey is born after barely a month in the womb, weighing less than a gram and roughly the size of a jellybean
Aug 15, 2026
Biology
Scientists wired sixteen black bears with brain sensors as part of a five-year research programme, and sampled recordings showed the…
Aug 13, 2026
Life
When a male anglerfish finds a mate, he bites into her side and never lets go
Aug 12, 2026
Biology
Sharks have existed for roughly 450 million years, and for the first 60 million of them, there wasn't a single tree anywhere on the planet
By Daniel Moran · Aug 10, 2026
Life
In 2016, someone walking past a drying pond in Thailand noticed a few strange rocks
By Daniel Moran · Aug 9, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Long before a baby can crawl, walk, or speak a single word, something in its body already seems to know what to fear
By Daniel Moran · Aug 9, 2026